Grant for sex intervention questioned

The federal government is paying $550,000 for UCSD research into ‘safer sex intervention for male clients of female sex workers in Tijuana,’ such as this woman in Zona Norte. [U-T file]
— Peggy Peattie

The federal government is paying $550,000 for UCSD research into ‘safer sex intervention for male clients of female sex workers in Tijuana,’ such as this woman in Zona Norte. [U-T file]
— Peggy Peattie

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Embarrassing theatrics

Matt Clark’s front page Sequestration article includes this horrifying possibility, that “$500,000 for researchers to study safer sex intervention for clients of sex workers in Tijuana” might be in jeopardy. Is he serious? Obviously this reporter has bought Obama’s embarrassing theatrics hook line and sinker, and he’s hoping to enrage San Diegans because Tijuana sex research might not have our government’s funding after today? Is he kidding?

Joe Engleson

Carlsbad

Can't be serious

Was I dreaming this morning? $500K of government funding "to study safer sex intervention for clients of sex workers in Tijuana"? Que pasa? Surely you can't be serious. I have to conclude that this was merely to determine whether people are reading their UT.

James Hale

Oceanside

Minor impact

Congratulations on publishing the Federal Spending chart showing the growth of the budget since 1940, inflation adjusted, and the minor impact of the sequester requirements over the next five years. The fact that the graphic was created by the Congressional Budget Office means it is a serious, non-political effort. I believe it also would lead one to believe that all of the administration's demogogicing about the uncontrollable impacts are shown to be nothing more than political strategy to blame the Republican Party and may well not be in the best interests of the country. I hope Americans can take this information in and come to the conclusion that we have an unsustainable spending problem. The sequester cuts hopefully will be just the beginning of a common sense approach to dealing with entitlements which are the real places where we must make adjustments and reduce spending.